Being able to take on most of the renovations myself significantly reduced the overall cost, while having the vacant unit allowed me to enhance the unit without disrupting any tenants.

They are disruptive/obnoxious.

The appraisal industry is ripe for disruption. 

I am an agent and have felt the disruption directly but it has also improved transparency between client and agent. 

@Chris Siefert what better time to invest than when you experience a life altering disruption? 

And that would disrupt your advantageous financing. 

But in the end I knew I could afford to keep the tenant and not disrupt a guy that is 70 years old and has probably not had a real easy go of it. 

Way too often these kind of things destroy friendships and family bonds, so if you like and want to keep your brother, your going to have to be ready to make it more then worth his while because it WILL disrupt his life, it won't feel worth the brain damage and disruption for the peanut's $, and it won't be, that's why us in PM manage hundred and thousands of units to make it worth while.

Instead of having all of your cash flow in one location in which one "issue" disrupts it, you now can spread the liability of "issue."

The industry is ripe for disruption.